{"id":27,"date":"2012-04-11T13:45:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T13:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitschiguy.co.uk\/?p=27"},"modified":"2018-04-20T03:58:19","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T19:58:19","slug":"phu-chi-fa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/phu-chi-fa\/","title":{"rendered":"Phu Chi Fa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I haven’t uploaded many pics from my travels. This was taken in 2005 on my second backpacking trip. I travelled light (50ltr backpack) so I only carried a small SLR and one lens and after that was stolen a digital compact. I went through a few cameras as a dropped them or managed to smash them up in some way or another or they just got stolen or were dropped out of the back of tuk-tuks. I bought this Sony DSC-N1 after my Canon EOS was stolen in Vietnam and my first ever digital camera, a DSC-T7 was stolen in Thailand, although not before I broke it by sweating on it too much on a trek.<\/p>\n

Phu Chi Fa is a mountain in the Thai Highlands in the Phi Pan Nam Range in the eastern part of Chiang Rai Province. It’s a bit of a bugger to get to – I rode a motorbike there – I think it took about 2 hrs from Chiang Rai city centre.<\/p>\n

I ended up going there twice but on this trip I went from Phu Chi Fa to Chiang Khong and from there to Chiang Saen and from there to Mai Sai where I thought I may as well go across to Myanmar to get my visa stamped again and from there back to Chiang Rai.<\/p>\n

The young lady in the second picture is my dear friend, Lin. I met Lin in Chiang Rai but she’s from a very small village way up in the hills near Ban Therd Thai, the enclave used as a hideout by the infamous drug lord, Khun Sa. Lin is from the Loimi Akha tribe. On another trip we visited her village and I met her family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t uploaded many pics from my travels. This was taken in 2005 on my second backpacking trip. I travelled light (50ltr backpack) so I only carried a small SLR and one lens and after that was stolen a digital … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,71],"tags":[408,88,410,409,183,114,69,187],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel","tag-akha","tag-chiang-rai","tag-hilltribe","tag-loimi-akha","tag-photography","tag-phu-chi-fa","tag-thailand","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3131,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/3131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewdallow.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}